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“Beach Rats,” writer/director Eliza Hittman’s second feature, has a plot, sort of, but the plot isn’t really “the thing” here. The film is more of a tone-poem, a shifting collage of mood and atmosphere, back-lit by...

I couldn’t have imagined a more perfect program than the one held last Saturday at the American Writers Museum in Chicago. My dear husband Roger was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame by its...

LIKE MANY OF MY FELLOW AMERICANS I’ve lately been in a funk precipitated by the lack of leadership in the White House and its seeming defense of bigotry. Yet in the midst of this pain shared by...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX”21″”All These Sleepless Nights””Arthur and the Invisibles””Beautiful Creatures””Desierto””Donald Cried””Gold””Goon””I Am Sam””Railroad Tigers”6 NEW TO BLU-RAY”Ash vs. Evil Dead: Season 2″The second season of the Starz hit didn’t get the same attention as the...

Monsters are ubiquitous in the work of Bong Joon-ho. Sometimes they’re literal—a giant, mutated fish comes crawling out of the Han River in “The Host” (2006), and a genetically engineered super-pig takes center stage in “Okja”...

JUST BEFORE THE MOON EDGED BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SUN, MARKING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT TOTAL ECLIPSE IN 100 YEARS, EDWIN EISENDRATH, the new proprietor, was standing at the lectern of the City Club of Chicago...

When the adaptation of the hit comic book “The Tick” became something of a cult phenomenon on FOX in the early ‘00s, with Patrick Warburton in the lead role, we were in a very different era...

For its ninth edition, Noir City: Chicago returns with what its programmers have dubbed “The Big Knockover”—a celebration of the heist film, from its heyday in the ’40 and ’50s, to its modern-day incarnations. As usual,...

The world lost one of its most beloved comedians this past Sunday with the death of Jerry Lewis. Scott Jordan Harris penned our obituary, but we wanted to let other members of our staff share their...

On Twitter, Shaula Evans (@shaulaevans) asked: Name one life experience—not something you read/watched/consumed, but something you LIVED—that positively shaped you as a creative person.— Shaula Evans (@ShaulaEvans) August 19, 2017 The first example I thought of...